Women In A Male Art World — By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy: 1500-1800
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibit By Her ­Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy: 1500-1800 (Sept. 30, 2021 through Jan. 9, 2022) brings to Connecticut paintings by Italian women in a male-dominated art world.
Who do you think of when you think of Italian art?
Michelangelo? Botticelli? Caravaggio? Bernini? And in contemporary times, Modigliani.
Why haven’t we heard of the women?
In Connecticut, girls were making needlework schoolgirl art that evolved into samplers — the more intricate and beautiful, the higher the young woman’s…
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